Begusarai Municipal Corporation : A study on population characteristics

Abstract

Population characteristics include study of population density, growth rate and social
compositions, and worker status. The study has been done to analyse reasons and effects
of spatial and temporal distribution of population; the spatial aspects of social composition, i.e. sex ratio, literacy rate and worker's classification that were portrayed for 2011
census. The secondary sources of data of two census years 2001 and 2011 are collected to
portray different population characteristics at ward level. Sex ratio is considered as an
important parameter for determining the growth of population, social condition of the
society, quality of life etc. Spearman's rank difference method has been used to find the
coefficients of correlation between literacy and sex ratio, and literacy and working population of the city. Certain relevant and pragmatic conclusions are derived from the discussion.